And it’s goodnight from her: the 10 biggest news stories of 2014

Console sales, online abuse, exclusives, broken games and buyouts. What were the biggest news stories of 2014?

Since VG47’s inception in January 2008, there have been 89,885 news and feature submissions posted on the site. In 2014 alone, as of December 11, there have been 11,591 news and feature articles posted on the front page.

With such a vast number of articles, it was a rather onerous task trying to whittle down just 10 stand-out stories of the year, so while your mileage may vary when it comes to what was a big deal and what was small potatoes in your eyes, these are the stories which were at the forefront of our collective minds in 2014.

That being said, below are the 10 of biggest news stories to hit the site in 2014, and in no particular order.

It was indeed a surprising announcement considering the core Tomb Raider series had never been released as exclusive to any one format, excluding games developed specifically for handhelds.

Luckily, the game will eventually be released at some point for formats other than Xbox. While Microsoft was recently announced as both publisher and development partner for the Xbox One and Xbox 360 versions, Square Enix reiterated the deal was a timed-exclusive, reassuring PlayStation and PC fans that eventually they too will be able to play Rise of the Tomb Raider at some point beyond holiday 2015.

New-gen consoles plagued with broken AAA games

PlayStation 4 and Xbox One have only been on the market for a year, so it’s easy enough to assume developers aren’t 100% familiar with the hardware just yet. However, it doesn’t excuse the absolute rubbish being released onto the market just to adhere to a release date predetermined by suit-wearing bosses sitting in leather chairs in their top floor offices.

Halo: The Master Chief Collection, DriveClub and Assassin’s Creed: Unity are just three of the most high profile and anticipated games for both consoles to have been released in 2014; and each released with major issues instead of being left in the oven a bit longer to cook.